Effective Training & Development is essential if you are to continuously get the best from your people and extend the knowledge shelf--life of your company. This module explores the vast array of options available to the HR function including on--the--job learning, formal management education, coaching and mentoring. Cost--effectiveness and measurable payback are also dealt with as cornerstones of any training and development activity.

A miller's son, George Green (1793 1841) received little formal schooling yet managed to acquire significant knowledge of modern mathematics, especially French work. In 1828 he published his Essay on the Application of Mathematical Analysis to the Theories of Electricity and Magnetism, the work for which he is now celebrated. Admitted to Cambridge in 1833 as a mature student, Green went on to become a fellow of Gonville and Caius College. His early death, however, cut short a promising career as a mathematical physicist. While English contemporaries saw what he might have achieved, they did not understand what he had actually achieved. Only when William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin) rediscovered Green's first publication and shared it with the French mathematical elite was his greatness truly appreciated. Edited by the Cambridge mathematician Norman Macleod Ferrers (1829 1903) and published in 1871, this collection comprises Green's influential essay and nine further papers."

This is the fast track route to mastering all aspects of training and development. This book covers key training and development best practice and thinking, from establishing current levels of knowledge and skills to setting priorities, and from developing individual action plans to using technology. It contains examples and lessons from some of the world's most successful businesses, including American Airlines and National Air Traffic Services, and ideas from the smartest thinkers, including Meredith Belbin and Katherine Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers. It includes a glossary of key concepts and a comprehensive resources guide.